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• I think different societies, cultures, individuals, teams of people, make the world a better place. The founding fathers, they made New England, they made those 13 colonies. I don't know if they thought they were changing the world or just changing their world, but they did make the world a better place. Doctors that cure patients or cure diseases or make discoveries, they're making the world a better place. Can I make the world a better place by selling underpants? Not really. That's just the means. That gives me resources to try to make the world a better place.

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  Father, Team, Mean

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• My friends don't understand, whether it's belonging to a country club or playing golf, or whatever a vacation is, that should make you happy. And it's like, "No, happiness is much deeper." I think people have to struggle to find things that give them purpose, the real meaning. Why am I alive? Why did God bless me with these skills or these resources? What am I to do with them? If God just lets some person be very fortunate, let's say financially, it's kind of a funny God.

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  Country, Real, Struggle

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• I think a lot of people would assume that my job is more about supermodels and naked ladies and all that, and no, it's just really about fashion, merchandise and customers. So the obviously sexy parts - you get to go to the fashion show and all that stuff. It's really just business. That's my story. I'm sticking to it.

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  Sexy, Fashion, Thinking

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• My faith is very important me. I think the notion that there's this greater force outside of ourselves that's created the universe, created challenges, creates opportunity, the notion of man's responsibility to man.

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  Responsibility, Opportunity, Men

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• At that time when I was struggling with being successful in a financial way, people would say, "You should be very happy. Look how well you're doing financially," and I was struggling to find purpose, if you would. There's quote from Einstein that said, "Happiness and well-being are the ambitions of a pig." And I thought, "Boy, that's exactly how I feel."

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  Struggle, Ambition, Successful

  "Victoria's Other Secret". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 10, 2017.

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• I think leaders lead themselves, but leaders have ideas and maybe they're visionary ideas. Probably today, people would say Steve Jobs was a visionary because he invented this little gadget, the cell phone. But he didn't invent cell phones, and he didn't design the cell phone. He just took a couple of ideas and put them together, and no one else put those same ideas together as successfully as he did. But he had something that he was trying to do that intrigued him, and he could do it very well.

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  Couple, Thinking, People

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• I think finding the way in life is the hardest part. At every stage of life, every trial, every success, you know, you're going into some kind of fog. There isn't a plan that suddenly reveals itself, and you go, "Ta-da! Now I understand."

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  Thinking, Kind

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• Society can't wait. It's sad there are so many entrepreneurs, business successes and venture capitalists who give no thought to society.

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  Giving, Entrepreneur, Waiting

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• I'm unhappy with the President Trump. I don't like his behavior, and I'm a Republican, and I don't like his policies because they're almost the antithesis of the American character of generosity, of charity, of welcoming, of helping, of taking risks. You think of the lives that were expended in World War I and World War II to help others, and they say now we'll draw up the bridge and we'll protect ourselves. We won't have a broader role in humanity.

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  War, Character, Helping Others

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• My Picassos and Ferraris - those are kind of just toys. Those aren't the things that matter. What matters in the car collecting or the art collecting is to learn about it, and then actually not the acquisition but to put them into a collection that I think is curated. You know, so something of me in the collection that the artist actually created the work. If I was going to collect art, it had to be something of me, my eye, things that appeal to me so when I looked at it, it would really look like a collection, not just an accumulation of stuff.

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  Art, Eye, Thinking

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• I think it's good to have your own selfish interests, whether it's liking chocolate ice cream or wanting a new car. It's just human nature is that. We have our own selfish interests. I think we have interests that go beyond our self to friends, to family first, maybe to friends, maybe to community. I think that's important to think about those spheres of influence that radiate from you.

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  Selfish, Thinking, Car

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• The foundation of leadership is your own moral compass. I think the best quality leaders really know where their moral compass is. They get it out when they are making decisions. It's their guide. But not only do you have to have a moral compass and take it out of your pocket, it has to have a true north.

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  Thinking, Decision, Leader

  "Victoria's Other Secret". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 10, 2017.

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• As an entrepreneur, you work out solutions.

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  Work Out, Entrepreneur, Solutions

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• Growing up, I knew you were supposed to have a profession - and something better than being a shopkeeper, which is what my parents were.

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  Growing Up, Parent, Shopkeepers

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• What makes you tick? Why do you care about the things you care about?

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  Care, Tick, Do You Care

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• Sometimes I wish I lived more in the day, but I'm happier thinking about tomorrow or the day after. The way I see it, there's always a new or next thing.

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  Thinking, Wish, Way

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• In the '70s and '80s, the mentality of America was that everything was disposable. The notion of quality wasn't important.

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  America, Important, Quality

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• Entrepreneurs, guys that start businesses, grow with them. It's more painful than it would appear.

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  Entrepreneur, Guy, Painful

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• I am really proud of the development of the people on my team as they grow in purpose; they like what they see in the mirror.

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  Team, Mirrors, People

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• I was single for most of my life. The best thing that happened to me is my wife. I've got four kids. All of them go to Harvard. Much better than their dad. They're really bright kids.

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  Dad, Kids, Wife

  Source: www.achievement.org

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• Humans are pack animals. In Biblical times, the great market cities in Europe or the United States, people want to be with other people. And in a way, the more that we're isolated, whether we're living on farms and we're only talking to our cell phone, the greater the need we have for group experience. So while people are saying that no one is going to go shopping because it's just inconvenient, and it's not as easy as buying online, why are people going to concerts? Why are people going to museums? Why are they going to sporting events?

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  Biblical, Animal, People

  "Victoria's Other Secret". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. February 10, 2017.

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• There is always hopefully a next.

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  Next, Hopefully

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